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dc.contributor.authorShell, Hanna Rose
dc.contributor.authorWellerstein, Alex
dc.date.accessioned2016-12-28T18:48:59Z
dc.date.available2016-12-28T18:48:59Z
dc.date.issued2015-01
dc.identifier.issn1097-3729
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106163
dc.description.abstractNukeMap is an interactive data-visualization website that allows visitors to detonate virtual nuclear bombs on global targets of their choice.1 It is the creation of Alex Wellerstein, a historian of science and technology who launched the site in early 2012. In NukeMap, the visitor selects a type of nuclear device, defining its size, or chooses from a menu of predefined options that model the effects that an actual historical bomb would have on a present-day target. Interactive-display options allow visitors to explore map layers and datasets such as blast radius, fallout pattern, and number of casualties. Hyperlinks connect to additional historical resources. He or she may, for example, see how much damage “Little Boy,” the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, would do if dropped on modern Mumbai, or “Gadget,” the bomb detonated over the New Mexican desert in the Trinity test, would do if dropped on Manhattan today.en_US
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dc.publisherMuse - Johns Hopkins University Pressen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.2015.0015en_US
dc.rightsArticle is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use.en_US
dc.sourceJohns Hopkins University Pressen_US
dc.titleTechnologist-Historian: Data Visualization Meets the Archiveen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.citationShell, Hanna Rose, and Alex Wellerstein. “Technologist-Historian: Data Visualization Meets the Archive.” Technology and Culture 56.1 (2015): 204–208. © 2015 Society for the History of Technologyen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Societyen_US
dc.contributor.mitauthorShell, Hanna Rose
dc.relation.journalTechnology and Cultureen_US
dc.eprint.versionFinal published versionen_US
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticleen_US
eprint.statushttp://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerRevieweden_US
dspace.orderedauthorsShell, Hanna Rose; Wellerstein, Alexen_US
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dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4538-5819
mit.licensePUBLISHER_POLICYen_US


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